Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those designs could be , and were , constantly reused , either in their original form or adapted to accord with changing fashion and taste . |
| 2 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 3 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 4 | first , there was the accretion of new powers and the growth in scale of those that continued to rest with local authorities . |
| 5 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 6 | Fortunately , there always seemed to be a hard core of people who were determined to breathe new life into a tradition that had started with phenomenal success in 1892 under its first president , Billy Hutchinson , of Redcar . |
| 7 | Often quite different language and notations are needed with different groups ; it would be a very ambitious program that attempted to cope with this . |
| 8 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 9 | If a proprietor were to trade as ‘ The Saucy Sausage ’ and failed to comply with either of the above requirements , then he or she would be liable to criminal prosecution for such a failure . |
| 10 | She wound a lime chiffon scarf of Madeleine 's around her head , and practised pouting with one hip thrust forward . |
| 11 | Tabitha 's headset suddenly locked into an ambient channel and began to tinkle with tinny salsa . |
| 12 | She jerked a mouthful from between the spars and began to chew with quiet satisfaction . |
| 13 | She snatched it eagerly from his hand and began to eat with great relish . |
| 14 | The six women — all nuns — cried out ‘ Independence for Tibet ’ and began to walk with short but determined steps around the clockwise circuit of the Barkhor temple . |
| 15 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
| 16 | But once outside , Dana and I became quarrelsome and started to fight with one another , releasing heaven knows what accumulated stores of fury and resentment . |
| 17 | He then walked into the small alcove of electronic equipment and appeared to fiddle with some dials and buttons until music suddenly blasted out a pair of wall mounted speakers . |
| 18 | At the time I was interested in graphology , and had experimented with various styles of handwriting . |
| 19 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 20 | However , even this cost control team was subsequently absorbed by the Treasury in 1983 because it was politically unpopular and had met with mixed success . |
| 21 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 22 | I went into the dressing-room and had to change with these men . |
| 23 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 24 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |
| 25 | A special general conference of the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party on Dec. 9 confirmed Mangosuthu Buthelezi as leader , and resolved to co-operate with other parties in working for a non-racial multiparty democracy . |
| 26 | Adam slept too , very soon afterwards , and awoke shivering with cold at dawn as one does after sleeping uncovered in the open air . |
| 27 | The older two continued their walk , but the youngest seemed more interested in the girls than his brothers were , and stayed to dance with several of them . |
| 28 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 29 | The general concept of Kinmount , with its vast Soanic central saloon rising into a tribune gallery and a lantern tower , was reproduced in neo-Tudor form as his ambitious enlargement of Saltoun , East Lothian ( 1817 ) ; without the lantern tower , at his neo-Classical Adderston , Northumberland ( 1819 ) and the much larger Camperdown , Dundee ( 1821–28 ) ; and , at Blairquhan , Ayrshire ( 1820 ) where he retained the lantern tower but began to experiment with asymmetrical planning and to adopt more archaeologically correct Tudor forms , following the example of William Wilkins ' Tregothnan ( 1816 ) and Dalmeny ( 1814 ) . |
| 30 | So they took the money each month but refused to mix with other movie people in their spare time . |